{"id":1013,"date":"2007-02-16T08:38:58","date_gmt":"2007-02-16T16:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2007\/02\/revisiting_a_mission_shift\/"},"modified":"2007-02-16T08:38:58","modified_gmt":"2007-02-16T16:38:58","slug":"revisiting_a_mission_shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/revisiting_a_mission_shift.php","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting a mission shift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased to get <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/008295.php#c60704\">a new comment today<\/a> from Matthew Kwatinetz, Producing Artistic Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolhillarts.com\/\">Capitol Hill Arts Center<\/a> in Seattle, which had been the subject of a weblog post way back in June.<\/p>\n<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/008295.php\">original post<\/a> was on CHAC&#8217;s decision to discontinue its traditional theater season, which was no longer working as a business model. Kwatinetz&#8217; comments suggest that the change has led to positive results, and new opportunities for non-traditional performance experiences. Says he:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;while some theatre productions seem to exhibit a dwindling audience, other very experimental (and often amateur) blends of performance\/music\/dance (in other words, nascent theatre) seem to be increasing in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>In my view, this is an essential question for theatre producers (and artistic\/managing director teams) to consider. Is there some feedback loop being missed by an anachronistic model that no longer is tied to the play-goer&#8217;s (ie, consumer&#8217;s) value?<\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good question, and a welcome update to a story that continues to be worth watching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was pleased to get a new comment today from Matthew Kwatinetz, Producing Artistic Director of the Capitol Hill Arts Center in Seattle, which had been the subject of a weblog post way back in June. My original post was on CHAC&#8217;s decision to discontinue its traditional theater season, which was no longer working as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}